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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Chuck Douglass. Welcome to the Power Hour on six
(00:02):
ten WTV. And I don't care what the temperature says.
I know what it feels like out there, sixty seven
right now at your severe weather station, although honestly, in
my mind it feels like it's about fifty.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, there's no son out, it's overcasting.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah, I know. I'm not liking this at all. A
two one died at eight six A two one WTV.
And two big things on my mind tonight the election
coming up tomorrow, the primary and the expansion of CODO,
which I'm sorry but I just don't get. As far
as tomorrow's election, I'm I am lacking motivation as a
member of citizen of the City of Columbus. Here's what's
(00:39):
on the ballot for me tomorrow. One of them is
to choose one of three Democrats for Columbus City Council,
because of course there are no Republicans bothering to run.
My other option, I got to choose three of ten
Democrats for Columbus school Board because again no Republicans an.
(01:01):
Then I got to vote yes or no yay in
a up or down on a bond issue for the
City of Columbus, so the city can borrow money and
you can pay it back through higher fees on everything
you pay the city for which I would vote against,
but I know I'll be un numbered because plenty of
people who who They're the same people who post past
every other levee, whether it's you know, a government office
(01:24):
or you know CODA or or the library, or the
ADAM board or the Agency on Aging or whatever. They
pass every levee. Every levee passes. So me voting no
on that is not going to have anything to do
with anything. I just can't see taking time out of
my day to go do something that, honestly, I just
(01:47):
feel like is pointless. So you can either you know,
commiserate with me or tell me what a dummy I
am and talk to me to go in a different direction.
May two on WTV and John, thanks for holding on.
You're on sixth WTVN.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Hey, I'm going to try and convince you that it's
worth going to the ballot both tomorrow. So I believe
that the bond issue you're talking about it if it's
issued too, it's a statewide issue, and it actually has
to do with not schools. It doesn't create more property taxes.
(02:25):
It is not a levey. And what it is is
actually for roads, bridges, and some sanitary small sanitary super
projects for local governments, not for o DOT. It's been around,
this is it's going to buy up to be forty
years now that this thing has been around. It comes
(02:46):
up in about ten year cycles, and this is the
next ten year cycle that it's come due. And it
really I mean, if you've driven to work on local roads,
county roads, township roads, city streets, you have reaped the
benefits over the last forty years of this bond.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Well, I drew it on roads all over the state
of Ohio, and over the last three years since they
passed that ten cent gas tax that was supposed to
repair all the roads, it seems like they've only gotten worse.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
John Well, again, that covers everything including Odie. This does
not include Odie. This is strictly your county engineers, your township,
things like that. If you have a bridge as closed
this and again, this has been gone on since like
nineteen eighty seven, I think it was when they first
(03:37):
passed it. And it runs in ten year cycles, and
it's a bond.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
So State of.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Ohio issues bonds. Investors can invest in them their tax
free and that's where the money comes from. It's not
a property tax or anything like that. But it really
does help, especially the local counties and townships to pave road,
put in bridges, things like that. In some cases where
(04:05):
these unfunded mandates come down from the fests on sanitary
sewer projects and they have to they say you either
are going to do this or we've got to We're
gonna see you. A lot of times, that's where the
only place they can get the money for these projects,
and and they're locally decided, they're they're they're very competitive.
(04:25):
You can go to the meetings and talk to the people,
and you can look on the Hile Public Works website
to see what projects have been approved, what projects haven't.
You can go back four years if you want. I mean,
it's very open in your face. It's it's easy to access.
You can see where this money has gone, specifically project
(04:46):
by project.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Well, I'll go back and read the synopsis because as
you're again, I'm still I'm a bit confused on this
because I'm wondering, Okay, why is the state level then
sponsoring this on the on the ballot when it's counties
and cities, why would individual counties and cities not not be.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Going because they realize, they realize that, you know, we
send gas and packed so forth to the Feds. We
collected here at the pump, we send it up to
the Feds. The Feds take their cut, they send some
back to us to the ODOT. ODAT takes their cut,
(05:25):
and it's a trickle down. And you know, ODATT has
a lot more heavily traveled roads and a lot bigger bridges.
But when you get down to the local county level
and township level and city level, not necessarily Columbus or
Cincinnati or Cleveland, but I mean some some of those too.
But they they have a lot more needs than what
(05:45):
they have money. And especially with inflation. I mean inflation
has hit everyone, especially in the last several years, but
it's really hits the construction industry. So a mile of
ass paving, a mile of asphalt is a lot more
expensive than it was even three years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I appreciate the input. I'll go back and take a
look at it. I did not understand it to be
a state wide issue, and that's just because it kept
talking about all the local road work. But I'll go
back and look. If it's a state issue, I don't know. Again,
I'm going to have to think. I'm a thinking person,
That's what I do. I'll have to think about it.
I get what you're saying. However, you know the state,
(06:27):
the state is still government. The state is still you know,
past the lottery in we'll fund the schools. There's always
smoking mirrors at every level, and past the gas tax
and the roads will be better. These are the same people,
even if it's different projects, different levels of management, whether
it's you know, counties, townships, whatever. That was what we
(06:49):
were sold and I have not seen it happen since
we have sold it. But as usual, we bought it.
We always do, don't we A two on nine eight six,
A two on WTV and Jerry, you're up. How are you?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I'm good. Hey, I'm calling about the I'm in District
seven and we have three candidates for city council there.
It's like the primary, so one of them we're gonna win.
And they got this tire of ross. She's raised like
one hundred and eighty thousand dollars and half of the
(07:22):
money she raised was donated by council members. I mean,
they're all voted poor. They were all back in her.
I said, well, then they had this court, this case that,
and found out that she's been driving around with a
suspended license. She's had almost four thousand dollars in unpaid
(07:43):
parking tickets and speeding tickets yep, and just having oh
just hap me all they found out. So now she's
gonna she's paid her ticket and she's got her license
re instated. Down.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I don't know what you got to do that we
will somebody give me a hundred and eighty thousand dollars
of their money. I pay my tickets too.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
No, but then they Vogel. It's another guy. Of course,
she's a Democrat, and Vogel is a Democrat, and he's
backed by LGBQ Stone Wall Union and all that. Well
kind of know where he's coming from.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
But they got to the other.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Lady and all she's she's able to raise eight thousand
dollars and she's an independent, which you know she's gonna
get massacred, but that she's hitting.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
My vote just because she's got enough courage.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Well she's the female, so we can't say the other part.
So so she's able to actually try to get an
independent voice in there, and it says that she's going
to be fighting against you know all, it's crazy. Everything
is Democrat in this city, everything.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And you know, I've listened to what she's had to say,
and I looked at who is supporting her and so forth.
She's running as an independent, but she's a very liberal
left independent.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
So I know, I realize that too. The thing is
that they've got all this backing, And then where is
the Republicans. No candidate, nobody who runs the mayor is unopposed.
When he runs, who's unopposed? You got all these other
if be unopposed, Where the heck is all the Republicans?
Why can't they put him somebody up? Even if they
(09:21):
get massacred, at least have somebody a Republican name on
the ballot.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I agree, I agree, Jerry. I've been saying it for years.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Man.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
People don't care if you lose. They just want you
to go down swinging. We just surrender the ship. We
don't even bother to show up for the fight.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Well, do't even.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Show up, Like I say that, And that's for all
these offices, and oh, Zach Klein is back in there.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
You know he's an attorney, geral or the general or whatever.
I mean, he's the attorney. Yeah, and he's been backing there.
But she got all these unpaid tickets and all this,
and she was just she.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Was working for him in the prosecutor's office where they
prosecute people for that kind of stuff, when she got
these tickets, she got all that. Now, yeah, it's ridiculous, Jerry,
I'm with you, buddy. Let me try to get Will
in here before we have to say goodbye. Will you're
on six to NATVN Yes, Chuck on the.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
State issue too, as what I would very very much
for you to vote no on that, and I am
a counselman in the village of Carroll. Now we are
benefiting from the last batch of the same thing as
issue to the two six point two million dollars for
a sewer system. But when we get that money, we're
(10:44):
going to have to give five thousand to the County
Commissioners of Fairfield County just so we can administer it
ourselves the grant money and use our engineer at his
people to book the job. They get five grand for nothing,
absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Everybody's got their healed in the POSH gets to it,
there's nothing left.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
So I say vote no on those will.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Is that the way it's structured or is that just
the way they managed to insert themselves.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
That's that's the way it's structured.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
And the other thing with that is I've always had
the view and I have never in my entire life
voted yes on a bond issue, a tax, property tax levy,
an increase in sales tax ering. Because there is so
much waste in the government at all levels. Cut the waste,
then talk to me about an increase.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Amen, Will. If I lived in Carroll, I'd vote for you, buddy.
I appreciate the call.
I'm Chuck Douglass. Welcome to the Power Hour on six
(00:02):
ten WTV. And I don't care what the temperature says.
I know what it feels like out there, sixty seven
right now at your severe weather station, although honestly, in
my mind it feels like it's about fifty.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, there's no son out, it's overcasting.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah, I know. I'm not liking this at all. A
two one died at eight six A two one WTV.
And two big things on my mind tonight the election
coming up tomorrow, the primary and the expansion of CODO,
which I'm sorry but I just don't get. As far
as tomorrow's election, I'm I am lacking motivation as a
member of citizen of the City of Columbus. Here's what's
(00:39):
on the ballot for me tomorrow. One of them is
to choose one of three Democrats for Columbus City Council,
because of course there are no Republicans bothering to run.
My other option, I got to choose three of ten
Democrats for Columbus school Board because again no Republicans an.
(01:01):
Then I got to vote yes or no yay in
a up or down on a bond issue for the
City of Columbus, so the city can borrow money and
you can pay it back through higher fees on everything
you pay the city for which I would vote against,
but I know I'll be un numbered because plenty of
people who who They're the same people who post past
every other levee, whether it's you know, a government office
(01:24):
or you know CODA or or the library, or the
ADAM board or the Agency on Aging or whatever. They
pass every levee. Every levee passes. So me voting no
on that is not going to have anything to do
with anything. I just can't see taking time out of
my day to go do something that, honestly, I just
(01:47):
feel like is pointless. So you can either you know,
commiserate with me or tell me what a dummy I
am and talk to me to go in a different direction.
May two on WTV and John, thanks for holding on.
You're on sixth WTVN.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Hey, I'm going to try and convince you that it's
worth going to the ballot both tomorrow. So I believe
that the bond issue you're talking about it if it's
issued too, it's a statewide issue, and it actually has
to do with not schools. It doesn't create more property taxes.
(02:25):
It is not a levey. And what it is is
actually for roads, bridges, and some sanitary small sanitary super
projects for local governments, not for o DOT. It's been around,
this is it's going to buy up to be forty
years now that this thing has been around. It comes
(02:46):
up in about ten year cycles, and this is the
next ten year cycle that it's come due. And it
really I mean, if you've driven to work on local roads,
county roads, township roads, city streets, you have reaped the
benefits over the last forty years of this bond.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Well, I drew it on roads all over the state
of Ohio, and over the last three years since they
passed that ten cent gas tax that was supposed to
repair all the roads, it seems like they've only gotten worse.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
John Well, again, that covers everything including Odie. This does
not include Odie. This is strictly your county engineers, your township,
things like that. If you have a bridge as closed
this and again, this has been gone on since like
nineteen eighty seven, I think it was when they first
(03:37):
passed it. And it runs in ten year cycles, and
it's a bond.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
So State of.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Ohio issues bonds. Investors can invest in them their tax
free and that's where the money comes from. It's not
a property tax or anything like that. But it really
does help, especially the local counties and townships to pave road,
put in bridges, things like that. In some cases where
(04:05):
these unfunded mandates come down from the fests on sanitary
sewer projects and they have to they say you either
are going to do this or we've got to We're
gonna see you. A lot of times, that's where the
only place they can get the money for these projects,
and and they're locally decided, they're they're they're very competitive.
(04:25):
You can go to the meetings and talk to the people,
and you can look on the Hile Public Works website
to see what projects have been approved, what projects haven't.
You can go back four years if you want. I mean,
it's very open in your face. It's it's easy to access.
You can see where this money has gone, specifically project
(04:46):
by project.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Well, I'll go back and read the synopsis because as
you're again, I'm still I'm a bit confused on this
because I'm wondering, Okay, why is the state level then
sponsoring this on the on the ballot when it's counties
and cities, why would individual counties and cities not not be.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Going because they realize, they realize that, you know, we
send gas and packed so forth to the Feds. We
collected here at the pump, we send it up to
the Feds. The Feds take their cut, they send some
back to us to the ODOT. ODAT takes their cut,
(05:25):
and it's a trickle down. And you know, ODATT has
a lot more heavily traveled roads and a lot bigger bridges.
But when you get down to the local county level
and township level and city level, not necessarily Columbus or
Cincinnati or Cleveland, but I mean some some of those too.
But they they have a lot more needs than what
(05:45):
they have money. And especially with inflation. I mean inflation
has hit everyone, especially in the last several years, but
it's really hits the construction industry. So a mile of
ass paving, a mile of asphalt is a lot more
expensive than it was even three years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I appreciate the input. I'll go back and take a
look at it. I did not understand it to be
a state wide issue, and that's just because it kept
talking about all the local road work. But I'll go
back and look. If it's a state issue, I don't know. Again,
I'm going to have to think. I'm a thinking person,
That's what I do. I'll have to think about it.
I get what you're saying. However, you know the state,
(06:27):
the state is still government. The state is still you know,
past the lottery in we'll fund the schools. There's always
smoking mirrors at every level, and past the gas tax
and the roads will be better. These are the same people,
even if it's different projects, different levels of management, whether
it's you know, counties, townships, whatever. That was what we
(06:49):
were sold and I have not seen it happen since
we have sold it. But as usual, we bought it.
We always do, don't we A two on nine eight six,
A two on WTV and Jerry, you're up. How are you?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I'm good. Hey, I'm calling about the I'm in District
seven and we have three candidates for city council there.
It's like the primary, so one of them we're gonna win.
And they got this tire of ross. She's raised like
one hundred and eighty thousand dollars and half of the
(07:22):
money she raised was donated by council members. I mean,
they're all voted poor. They were all back in her.
I said, well, then they had this court, this case that,
and found out that she's been driving around with a
suspended license. She's had almost four thousand dollars in unpaid
(07:43):
parking tickets and speeding tickets yep, and just having oh
just hap me all they found out. So now she's
gonna she's paid her ticket and she's got her license
re instated. Down.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I don't know what you got to do that we
will somebody give me a hundred and eighty thousand dollars
of their money. I pay my tickets too.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
No, but then they Vogel. It's another guy. Of course,
she's a Democrat, and Vogel is a Democrat, and he's
backed by LGBQ Stone Wall Union and all that. Well
kind of know where he's coming from.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
But they got to the other.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Lady and all she's she's able to raise eight thousand
dollars and she's an independent, which you know she's gonna
get massacred, but that she's hitting.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
My vote just because she's got enough courage.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Well she's the female, so we can't say the other part.
So so she's able to actually try to get an
independent voice in there, and it says that she's going
to be fighting against you know all, it's crazy. Everything
is Democrat in this city, everything.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And you know, I've listened to what she's had to say,
and I looked at who is supporting her and so forth.
She's running as an independent, but she's a very liberal
left independent.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
So I know, I realize that too. The thing is
that they've got all this backing, And then where is
the Republicans. No candidate, nobody who runs the mayor is unopposed.
When he runs, who's unopposed? You got all these other
if be unopposed, Where the heck is all the Republicans?
Why can't they put him somebody up? Even if they
(09:21):
get massacred, at least have somebody a Republican name on
the ballot.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I agree, I agree, Jerry. I've been saying it for years.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Man.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
People don't care if you lose. They just want you
to go down swinging. We just surrender the ship. We
don't even bother to show up for the fight.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Well, do't even.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Show up, Like I say that, And that's for all
these offices, and oh, Zach Klein is back in there.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
You know he's an attorney, geral or the general or whatever.
I mean, he's the attorney. Yeah, and he's been backing there.
But she got all these unpaid tickets and all this,
and she was just she.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Was working for him in the prosecutor's office where they
prosecute people for that kind of stuff, when she got
these tickets, she got all that. Now, yeah, it's ridiculous, Jerry,
I'm with you, buddy. Let me try to get Will
in here before we have to say goodbye. Will you're
on six to NATVN Yes, Chuck on the.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
State issue too, as what I would very very much
for you to vote no on that, and I am
a counselman in the village of Carroll. Now we are
benefiting from the last batch of the same thing as
issue to the two six point two million dollars for
a sewer system. But when we get that money, we're
(10:44):
going to have to give five thousand to the County
Commissioners of Fairfield County just so we can administer it
ourselves the grant money and use our engineer at his
people to book the job. They get five grand for nothing,
absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Everybody's got their healed in the POSH gets to it,
there's nothing left.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
So I say vote no on those will.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Is that the way it's structured or is that just
the way they managed to insert themselves.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
That's that's the way it's structured.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
And the other thing with that is I've always had
the view and I have never in my entire life
voted yes on a bond issue, a tax, property tax levy,
an increase in sales tax ering. Because there is so
much waste in the government at all levels. Cut the waste,
then talk to me about an increase.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Amen, Will. If I lived in Carroll, I'd vote for you, buddy.
I appreciate the call.
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